look at me still talking when there's science to do

Good news, everyone! </professor farnsworth>

Wheelchair company is picking up wheelchair from hospital. Depending on delivery routes, wheelchair will be recieved here either tomorrow or Monday.

Today's mail love:

Canisters I bought off eBay (three of the old-school tupperware ones, in daffodil yellow)
Cards from the_new_perfect (who also previously sent Magnetic Poetry poet's kit) and tsuki_no_bara
Copies of my photo-shoot photos, from silenceleigh (she did an AWESOME job. will scan in some later. So, so good.)

Virtual mail love of the past few days:

e-card from reannon
LJ cookie from cutie_pattuti65
amazon gift certificate from hithah
many wonderful comments from all of you!

Running total of rest of gifts in case anyone wants to know:
natalief: handknitted socks and arty postcard
the_new_perfect: magnetic poetry poet set
awils1 -> moleskine and pens
mirrormargaret -> mix CD
cindy_lou_who8 -> lush soap and handmade paper/dried flower stationery set
bishojo_kitsune -> stuff from the sanrio store, largely stationery based
jane_hidell -> stuffed dragon (red) and dolphin stickers
benjimmy -> ten mix cds, a drawing of Hugh Laurie and a letter. <3
aquatic_fishy -> podfic that you can download here.
hobbitblue adorable fluffy snow leopard of fluffiness

Gifts from tallin and seanersxp:

a stocking full of chocolate
evolution's rainbow: diversity, gender and sexuality in nature and people (have read it before but am totally stoked to have my own copy. must-read for anyone interested in gender/sexuality and/or science: written by a Christian transsexual evolutionary biologist who rocks the world.)

the quirks and quarks guide to space. Anyone who likes NPR's "Science Friday" will love CBC's Quirks and Quarks: podcast available at the CBC Podcast site.

And there will be more as soon as the UPS/Fedex people show up.

All in all a very satisfying couple of days, with the promise of more to come.

Also cool: Seaners adores his new mp3 player - it is better than stimmies. Those of you who deal with autistic kids will realize how big a deal it is that something new is providing so much joy. I know I've said it a lot in various places, but I'm just so pleased with it - and I think he's learned what the buttons do, too, which is awesome considering it's existed here about 24 hours or so. And it's so awesome that he's coming out of Sean World and taking interest in things around him. <3 machineplay gets loads of credit and kisses and lovins for showing it to me. (Will deliver kisses and lovins personally.)

Will have wheelchair for writing date with shadowgoddess42 AND to go to the airport to get gizmometer YAY!!! omg stoked.

starsong reminded me just now about chocolate cake in five minutes.

While you're eating it, remeber: everything is going to be alright.

I'm sure someone out there can use this information. <3

I really, really want one of these jobs I've applied for: partly because I like the idea of working in general and as an advocate in particular right now (I have the skills, why not put them to use?), but also because the university offers tuition exemption and I really want to go back to school part time (not to mention forty hours per week of income would definitely not hurt our budget.)

Please, please, please.

*hoping*

<3, L.

I am bitchy because:

• Have not written anything of substance since the weekend.
  
• The kid has an appointment with his shrinks today. Sigh. I'm just tired of all that.
  
• Am looking down the throat of an 8AM appointment tomorrow, and a 2PM appointment tomorrow, which adds up to a day where not much other than appointments gets accomplished.
  
• I am sick of appointments, and I still have three days of them this week and one Monday next.
  
• I have no pain meds that don't make me more tired than I am. And while they're effective, they're also narcotics, and not only do I want to stay awake (because I don't really feel like I'm getting enough done most of the time as it is) but the doctor is skittish about perscribing them, and ... yeah.
  
• And the fact that I have to be concerned about doctors perscribing me actual pain meds that work pisses me off in a huge way.
  
• The child has early dismissal next Wednesday. As if the fact that he had last week off of school wasn't already ENOUGH.
  
• Money sucks.
  
• I am sometimes not a nice person, no matter how hard I try to be a nice person.
  
• I despise confrontation but I'm going to have to do it, and soon
  
• I'm sick of being so damn responsible
  
• I'm tired all the damn time, until it's actually time to go to bed, at which point I can't sleep.
  

However, to balance that out, I'm not bitchy because:

• It's a nice day.
  
• Some BPAL decants I ordered ages ago have been shipped and may be in today's mail
  
• The kid is in school.
  
• The appointment tomorrow in the morning at 8AM is actually with my pain management guy. If he's not in again, I'm at least seeing my primary care guy in the afternoon and can talk to him.
  
• Money sucks, but not as badly as it used to.
  
• There's a bin of vegetables outside my door. I'm going to go get it when I'm done this.
  
• I had a marvelous time RPing with purridot last evening
  
• I came up with a story for the next house_bigbang.
  
• There are people that think I'm awesome, even during the times when I think I suck.
  
• I'm working on a couple of original pieces
  
• I found a market to submit one of my Write-O-Rama pieces to.
  

Public service announcement:
You should donate to rsl_bday_drive, because it's for a good cause, and then I'll write you things. <EOM>

(eom = end of message, obviously.)

Home. Tired. Have defeated my fear of the damn bridge over the freeway. Walked about a mile from the freeway stop to home.

Emmi gifted me with Elizabeth Zimmerman's 'Knitting Without Tears' (which looks awesome as I glanced through it) and some pumpkin bread mix.

She made tallin a t-shirt that says 'if you can read this you're too damn close' in braille, (seriously, it's totally awesome) and Seaners got a lovely letter (also brailled) with a promise of three trips to Jump Palace (one of those local bounce-castle places which he has been to before and loves) with treats on the way home, and some nifty trays for food wherein he can separate all of his dinner into sections. (They are seriously cool. He likes being able to Find Stuff Himself.) And tallin played Space Channel 5 Part 2 on PS2 and is way better than I would be at it, so we have to buy it now, or well, eventually. <3

She made us brunch and sent us home with dinner and cookies (OMG beet risotto SO GOOD) and I love her to itty bitty bits. And now I'm going to collapse because my body hates the fact that I've walked a mile, especially the ankle (and did I mention I strained the tendons on the other one by falling? No? I did. So I have two screwed up ankles now.) But it was super nice because the little boy stayed home and I got to feel like an actual sociable grownup for a while instead of a kid-chaser.

OMG I r ded. The End.

Confidence and weight: a proportional relation. Nifty piece about body image.

Note re: neurontin - it works fantastically during the day on a normal day, but not worth shit at night more times than not and/or during a flare. (Which apparently having my teeth worked on risks setting off? Freakin' hilarious.) Pain clinic appointment tomorrow at oh-dark-freakin-thirty; dentist appointment tomorrow at 2:00.

Good stuff: Lunch with seattlejo between those two points. Massage Saturday morning at 10:00. Might catch a movie Saturday afternoon. The Bubble is playing, and I love the idea of queer relationships mirroring the Middle East crisis (not to mention all that twentysomething eye candy, I'm a dirty old woman, I know.)

Our landlords are being sweet about deducting the cost of the plumber visit from next months' rent. AWESOMENESS. (Especially since our previous landlords were obnoxious about maintenance things and tended to assume up front that we broke everything even when we didn't.)

I'm going to see a movie in about half an hour.

I have a job interview tonight at 8 PST (good thoughts would be very much appreciated).

I have a pocket Neko statue, a pocket Buddha statue, and a roll of Chococat tape.

I had gelato this afternoon (coffee, vanilla and creme caramel.)

It's three weeks (21 days!) until kindergarten.

Chris's Wednesday meeting got changed to Thursdays, so in three weeks (21 days!) we can celebrate the beginning of the school year together by lying around all day and doing unspeakable things. Like sleeping. Yeah. (It must be unspeakable. Sean doesn't let us do it. Neither do the cats.)

Chris has an interview tomorrow for another full time position with Uncle Bill's House of Software. Here's hoping. (good thoughts then would be much appreciated too.)

1. May have found an after-preschool babysitter person for after the boy starts school. Interviewing her Sunday.
2. Luna™ caramel nut brownie bar (mmmmmmmmm.)
3. FINALLY found out what happened to my missing high school transcripts; they got the zip code wrong. Fortunately can do a fedex pickup Monday and it will be there by the deadline. I'm going to get in if it KILLS me at this point. (Unless of course they hate me, in which case I'll probably cry a LOT.)
4. These speakers are ridiculously cute and I want them.
5. This product is just ... weird.
6. Kung Foo Monkey links to a great series on understanding the brainmeats of fundamentalists. Kung Foo Monkey is excellent reading, if a little sporadic.
7. If rumored ship dates are true, I should get my BPAL order in the next few days, and the order for my Carnival Diabolique decant circle has come in and should be shipped to me Monday. *paces*